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    "id": 980061,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/980061/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mukurweini, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Anthony Kiai",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Githiaka Kiai",
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    "content": "We need to ensure that the debate about what will benefit our farmers is brought to Parliament and not done out there in the burials or by the roadside. The right place to do that is here in Parliament. Tea is one of the biggest foreign exchange earners in Kenya alongside diaspora remittances and tourism. When I look at the Bill, much as it is very shallow, it gives us a platform here in Parliament to address all the issues affecting the tea farmers in this country. Let us beef it up and ensure that all the critical matters that were raised by farmers across the country are considered at the Committee of the whole House. What we did initially was to collapse all the cash crops legislation into the AFA. It has been in existence for some time. We note, with despair, that AFA has not delivered. This year some of them have raised concern over the need to have a Tea Act. I say we need to have a Coffee Act, Sugar Act, Pumpkin Act and Water Melon Act as long as it has commercial value and puts some money into pockets of Kenyan farmers."
}